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Landfill Environmental Impact Studies

Landfill Environmental Impact Studies is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the long-term management of landfills, including topics such as landfill gas emissions, geosynthetic clay liners, methane oxidation processes, leachate recirculation, waste degradation, bioreactor landfills, hydraulic conductivity, municipal solid waste characteristics, landfill mining, and the use of geomembranes for containment.

  • Landfill Gas
  • Geosynthetic Clay Liners
  • Methane Oxidation
  • Leachate Recirculation
  • Waste Degradation
  • Bioreactor Landfills
  • Hydraulic Conductivity
  • Municipal Solid Waste
  • Landfill Mining
  • Geomembranes
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Landfill Environmental Impact Studies

Which countries lead Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (952 and 491 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 952 works
  2. 2 India 491 works
  3. 3 United States 282 works
  4. 4 Brazil 119 works
  5. 5 Canada 115 works
  6. 6 Iran 109 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 99 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 92 works
  9. 9 Japan 85 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 76 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 39.3%India: 20.3%United States: 11.7%Brazil: 4.9%6 others listed: 23.8%39%largest
China952 · 39.3%India491 · 20.3%United States282 · 11.7%Brazil119 · 4.9%6 others listed576 · 23.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhejiang University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 36 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 34 works
  3. 3 Zhejiang UniversityChina 33 works
  4. 4 Queen's UniversityCanada 27 works
  5. 5 Hohai UniversityChina 27 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 19 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 17 works
  8. 8 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 16 works
  9. 9 Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiIndia 16 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Landfill Environmental Impact Studies include Xiaogang Wang, Guangming Zeng and Yong Sik Ok.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  3. 3 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  4. 4 Rattan Lal United States 126k citations
  5. 5 Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht Netherlands 113k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies?

The most cited paper in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies is "SOIL DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY" (Lester E. Casida, D. A. Klein, Thomas J. Santoro, 1964), with 2,513 citations. Next come "Present and Long-Term Composition of MSW Landfill Leachate: A Review" (2,513) and "Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with biochar, a renewable, low cost and sustainable adsorbent – A critical review" (2,304).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SOIL DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY Lester E. Casida, D. A. Klein, Thomas J. Santoro · Soil Science Dec 1964 2,513
2 Present and Long-Term Composition of MSW Landfill Leachate: A Review Peter Kjeldsen, Morton A. Barlaz, Alix P. Rooker et al. · Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology Open access Oct 2002 2,513
3 Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with biochar, a renewable, low cost and sustainable adsorbent – A critical review Dinesh Mohan, Ankur Sarswat, Yong Sik Ok et al. · Bioresource Technology 7 Feb 2014 2,304
4 Short-term assay of soil urease activity using colorimetric determination of ammonium Ellen Kandeler, H. R. Gerber · Biology and Fertility of Soils Mar 1988 2,191
5 Climate-smart soils Keith H. Paustian, Johannes C. Lehmann, Stephen M. Ogle et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2016 2,179
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Where is Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research done?

The largest centres of Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Hangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kingston.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 128 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 76 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 74 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 71 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 50 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 49 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 44 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 29 works
  9. 9 KingstonCanada 29 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KingstonCA · 28.8 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Landfill Environmental Impact Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Guilan, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology and Queen's University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.29%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of GuilanXi'an University of …Southeast UniversityQueen's University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of GuilanIran 65.634.3%22.1×9 +127.6%
2Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 64.829.0%12.8×12 +245.9%
3Queen's UniversityCanada 63.17.5%21.6×27 +40.3%
4Southeast UniversityChina 61.822.8%3.7×16 +18.7%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 59.511.4%4.0×33 +19.7%
6Tongji UniversityChina 57.513.7%7.8×36 -19.8%
7Central South UniversityChina 50.121.8%2.1×12 +102.9%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 50.128.6%1.8×9 +110.5%
9China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 48.515.9%6.9×16 +92.5%
10Chang'an UniversityChina 46.817.9%8.4×10 +34.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies, country by country

Is Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Landfill Environmental Impact Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Landfill Environmental Impact Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Landfill Environmental Impact Studies0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Landfill Environmental Impact Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Landfill Environmental Impact Studies10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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